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Looking forward to trying out the updated notebook interface. Any experience with it? I tried to install and discuss the previous version with friends but fai

Looking forward to trying out the updated notebook interface. Any experience with it? I tried to install and discuss the previous version with friends but failed. I couldn't find examples on the web, and installation with matplotlib wasn't working out of the box for Mac or Windows (not complaining, just observing it was not simple enough).

lars512 14y ago
The IPython notebook's a real pleasure to use, and worth the trouble of getting it set up. The inline graphing works well, and if you take the trouble to give significant objects you care about a _repr_html_ method, you can use it as a very pleasant, visual data exploration tool.
- kdsudac 14y ago
  I'll have to check it out. I didn't even know the IPython notebook existed until I saw this post, but it would've been incredibly useful in the past.
Derbasti 14y ago
It is absolutely amazing. I think it would be pure gold in the classroom.
legoforte 14y ago
It was definitely a pain to get it running in the previous version on OSX, but entirely worthwhile. It's a really nice system that can replace mathematica and matlab for a lot of the work I do. In case this helps, here are the instructions that I ended up following to get the previous version running on OSX (using homebrew as my main package manager): brew install zeromq brew install qt (add the following to .bash_profile): export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH Download SIP 4.13 and PyQt4 from [1] and install with: python configure.py make make install Then do: easy_install pygments easy_install tornado easy_install ipython[zmq,test] easy_install --upgrade ipython (from within ipython): from IPython.external.mathjax import install_mathjax install_mathjax() [1] http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download
- opminion 14y ago
  Thank you!

lars512 14y ago

The IPython notebook's a real pleasure to use, and worth the trouble of getting it set up. The inline graphing works well, and if you take the trouble to give significant objects you care about a _repr_html_ method, you can use it as a very pleasant, visual data exploration tool.

kdsudac 14y ago
I'll have to check it out. I didn't even know the IPython notebook existed until I saw this post, but it would've been incredibly useful in the past.

Derbasti 14y ago

It is absolutely amazing. I think it would be pure gold in the classroom.

legoforte 14y ago

It was definitely a pain to get it running in the previous version on OSX, but entirely worthwhile. It's a really nice system that can replace mathematica and matlab for a lot of the work I do. In case this helps, here are the instructions that I ended up following to get the previous version running on OSX (using homebrew as my main package manager): brew install zeromq brew install qt (add the following to .bash_profile): export PYTHONPATH=/usr/local/lib/python:$PYTHONPATH Download SIP 4.13 and PyQt4 from [1] and install with: python configure.py make make install Then do: easy_install pygments easy_install tornado easy_install ipython[zmq,test] easy_install --upgrade ipython (from within ipython): from IPython.external.mathjax import install_mathjax install_mathjax() [1] http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/sip/download

opminion 14y ago
Thank you!